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<div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:302px;"><a class="external" href="https://wiki.panotools.org/File:Big_ben_stereographic.jpg"><img alt="" src="Big_ben_stereographic.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="300" class="thumbimage" /></a>  <div class="thumbcaption">Circular sterographic projection, based on Ben Kreunen equirectangular example</div></div></div>
<p><b>stereographic</b> is an alternative <a href="Fisheye_Projection.html" title="Fisheye Projection">fisheye Projection</a> which is <i>conformal</i>, making it more
suitable for printing than standard fisheye images which are extremely distorted at the edges.
</p><p>All versions of the <a href="Pano12.html" title="Pano12">pano12</a> library since 2.8.1 have supported this and some other novel <a href="Projections.html" title="Projections">projections</a>.
Various GUI front-ends<a class="external" href="https://wiki.panotools.org/GUI_front-ends">[*]</a> including <a href="Hugin.html" title="Hugin">hugin</a> and PTAssembler<a class="external" href="https://wiki.panotools.org/PTAssembler">[*]</a> now support it directly.
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<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://mathworld.wolfram.com/StereographicProjection.html">mathworld on stereographic projection</a></li>
<li>wikipedia:Stereographic projection<a class="external" href="http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereographic_projection">[*]</a></li></ul>
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<h2><a name="Comparison_with_standard_fisheye"><span class="mw-headline">Comparison with standard fisheye</span></a></h2>
<div class="thumb tnone"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:602px;"><a class="external" href="https://wiki.panotools.org/File:Medinet_habu_horizontal_fisheye.jpg"><img alt="" src="Medinet_habu_horizontal_fisheye.jpg" decoding="async" width="600" height="600" class="thumbimage" /></a>  <div class="thumbcaption">Example of a standard fisheye, Medinet Habu first courtyard</div></div></div>
<div class="thumb tnone"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:602px;"><a class="external" href="https://wiki.panotools.org/File:Medinet_habu_horizontal_stereographic.jpg"><img alt="" src="Medinet_habu_horizontal_stereographic.jpg" decoding="async" width="600" height="600" class="thumbimage" /></a>  <div class="thumbcaption">Example of a stereographic image, Medinet Habu first courtyard</div></div></div>
<h2><span id="Stereographic_'little_planet'_images"></span><a name="Stereographic_.27little_planet.27_images"><span class="mw-headline">Stereographic 'little planet' images</span></a></h2>
<p>Little planet<a class="external" href="https://wiki.panotools.org/Unusual_remappings#Little_planet">[*]</a> images are a nice way to represent a spherical
scene without requiring a panorama viewer<a class="external" href="https://wiki.panotools.org/Panorama_Viewers">[*]</a>, stereographic is generally superior
to standard <a href="Fisheye_Projection.html" title="Fisheye Projection">fisheye Projection</a> for these images.
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<div class="thumb tleft"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:302px;"><a class="external" href="https://wiki.panotools.org/File:Vertical-fisheye.jpg"><img alt="" src="Vertical-fisheye.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="300" class="thumbimage" /></a>  <div class="thumbcaption">standard fisheye little planet</div></div></div>
<div class="thumb tleft"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:302px;"><a class="external" href="https://wiki.panotools.org/File:Vertical-stereographic.jpg"><img alt="" src="Vertical-stereographic.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="300" class="thumbimage" /></a>  <div class="thumbcaption">sterographic little planet</div></div></div>

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